So as last time this is a collection of updates and some are not so fresh anymore but felt that it is more for people that have not heard about the apps before or that have some interest but have not gotten them yet.

​RoboVox Voice Changer

This has been around for awhile and Mikrosonic is still going strong with an update a year or so.Would say that this is the best voicechanger on Android and it is possible to have a lot of fun using it for recording and manipulating sounds in real time. Can be used in all kinds of creative ways and now the recording time is much longer plus many more effects to the recordings!

Winter Promo until 31/01/2019: Virtuoso scale pack is free when you buy the all in one packPerformance update for midi out over WIFI.Free audio file player for all previous premium buyers: listen to your audio files (.wav.mp3.ogg), while playing the usual sounds of 7Pad.AB loop possible on .wav files.

New backing track audio file player : you can select any .wav, .ogg and .mp3 file from your device storage and play along with 7Pad chords and scales !Could be a drum part, a backing track with all but your instrument or any audio you may like, 7Pad can now play it directly in app.The AB Loop function of the player allow ( only with .wav files ) to repeat any sub part of your audio file.The new Tap Tempo button permit to adjust Tempo bpm for the Song chords reproduction and favorite scales changes to play along.7Pad Chords velocity can be adjusted for the whole song, by choosing the Slider velocity source in 7Pad Song options parameters.

* Individual clips can now be renamed.* When using a USB audio interface, the input dialog will be optionally displayed right after creating a new audio track.* 'Virtual keyboard' can now be selected as input for USB MIDI tracks to drive outboard MIDI gear.* Added 'P' and 'E' as alternative to the 'Space bar' key to solve issues with Dex.* Added more keyboard shortcuts (F4 - F8), Ctrl-S for save.* Solved black text issue in drop-down menus.

Psychedelic camera and Color Night Vision Camera​A friend use the Color Night Vision Camera a lot lately with excellent results (For artistic photo and video work, not so much for the night vision aspect...) and will post about it soon...The Psychadelic Camera is a lot of fun and can be used for video work... Think that it is important to do videos for Youtube of new music being made as it is at least one more way to capture some attention and to have something that can make saomething look more interesting in your pocket easily is always great...The update is maybe not so useful for this but kind of interesting as it the apps now have Virtual Reality mode as well...

The winner of being the first to incorporate Convolution Reverb to an Android app is Grainstorm!!!

​To engage the convolution reverb the impulse response have to be loaded into one of the four tracks like this:

If playing sound on track 1 and want to have the reverb on that sound, first load the ir on track 2, then power on the reverb on track1 and then press the track2 button to load the ir from track2.

This makes sense if having the Convolution Reverb page open in the app, promise.

As always recommend this app for anyone that likes to experiment with sounds as ther eis a lot of options to be had and there is not anything else like it on Android. Maybe miss that it had possibilities to connect a midi keyboard but as the developer is constantly doing updates who knows it may be there one day soon!

2018 was slightly slow in the music app department...Maybe it was just a warm up for 2019?

SunVox had a good update as every year. G-Stomper is constantly improving. Stagelight was going strong with their new expressive Sampler/instrument, Grainstorm putting more and more functions inside...

New apps of interest, not so many...The biggest news flew under the radar as it still is listed as Beta and it is the workstation KDJ-ONE, then Fang Synth was cool as is by the same developer, Dragon (Gritty, Low bit Drum Synth), Drum PadBeats is a good one for triggering/sequencing loops and samples and for combining with Caustic projects. Also need to mention Tonebars which is a good one for droney stuff, MendelTone came out with magnificient glitch and noise potential reminding me that Noise Machine came out with an update... HumBeatz was surprisingly working in converting hums into notes and getting jams going.

Mikrosonic the developers of some of the earliest Android music apps are still going strong releasing updates recently to their apps! So big up to them.Another big, big up is for the n-Track Studio developers for putting AudioRoute out there for free for anyone to use so Android can become app interconnected!

On the downside we have Samsung that took one of Androids workstations for Samsung devices and buried it. They could have at least let the code free for others to develop and use!So Buuu to Samsung for that.Also let down that it seems that Reactable is not being developed anymore...

Also have noticed that Google Play have started to pull older apps that are no longer developed from the Playstore... So one app for example that still works real good on newer devices are Droiditar, now gone.It is my favorite virtual instrument and have always worked with low latency. (Luckily encountered an APK in the wild wanting to install it on a new device... After trying to find out anything about where the developers went without any success... Was hoping that they could be reached and be able to offer it on Musical Android but alas...)The moral of the above story... be careful uninstalling older apps that have not been updated for a long time if caring about them...

2019 have some interesting things in store.

The G-Stomper family will continue to grow. Introducing G-Stomper P (Producer) a more workstation/sequencer approach and with less of a Beatbox approach than G-Stomper Studio.

Nanoloop is undergoing some transformations with more synthesis and other goodies coming... Tried the Beta that looked like it would be coming with some excellent additions but it was still too rough for me about a month ago...

Am playing with a Beta of a new app now though that is real fun and it is a granular playground being very hands on called SpaceCraft. It is soon to be released on Android and already out there for iOS.There is a lot of videos already to look at if curious.​Very easy to get interesting and good results with. ​Striking a perfect balance of depth and ease of use, plus most importantly being very inspiring. Can also be used with midi keyboard and there is a lot of new timbres and sounds that is hard to get otherwise to play with as keyboardist...

Ahh, also should mention my deal of the year... Not a big deal but nice.As IK Multimedia have released a new version of the iRig guitar cable interface, there is now possible to buy the first version for almost nothing from China.Comes without a fancy box but costed me less than 2.50 in monies including postage..... Worked fine. Had to wait like six weeks though...Good for sampling things into a device. Like to sample things from one device to another for example... plus that it has output for headpones built into it.Hmm... Should order one or two more if one gets lost or as a nice small gift...www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xirig.TRS0&_nkw=irig&_sacat=0

Sure that there is things being missed but let us know in the comment section if there is.

Am sure that 2019 will be a good year for Android music making with latency finally being under control on newer devices and Android Operating systems, and hopefully having more Android developers taking advantage of Audioroute!

This is a comment from the post on the Phase84 synthesizer that I am bringing up for two reasons. First that I have been reading that the company have been doing a pretty bad work of maintaining their apps on iOS and then it is not a very good practice to not respond to customers when they have problems! Luckily I had very few unresponsive developers and feel that most developers for Android have been very helpful and cool. (Still would like to get response from the developer of Grainstorm though, regarding fixing the audio recording function! Three emails and nothing!)

Comment by EquavoxI've bought it and used on my Galaxy Note 4. It seems to work well as a standalone app, but when used in Soundcamp, theree are display bugs and the sound is cracking. But the worse : it's not possible to use the app with a usb midi keyboard plugged in the phone (which is possible with lots of others soundcamp apps : Thumbjam, Unique, Heat Synth, ...). I've wrote to the dev team to ask if this feature could be added in a next update but i got no answer... So this app seems just to be a non-free beta version for the moment...

Have good news and bad news!If you are like me for sure you want the bad news first!Okay so as you may or may not know this is a week when I wanted to delve into Pixilang and today I wanted to post a Tutorial but first I wanted to go through the tutorial but the bad news is that it will have to wait until next week...as time disappeared into black holes and today I have to let my daughter go with mother to country side so I can get Drunk and stupid showing SunVox for a friend and maybe sing a ballad or two.Well that was not so bad was it!Now for the good news.Have finally at least taken my first step into the world of Pixilang and am starting to understand oh so slightly how it is working and it tastes good to my brain!So think that Pixilang week will be expanded to Pixilang years!Will definitely learn it and think that in a week or two will open up a new sub header just for Pixilang with tutorials and programs etc. I mean it should be very interesting for people that uses Android to learn it or at least how to incorporate and use the programs that other people have created- For example the 1 bit video that got posted yesterday- Here is a link to the code that got used to make the video:http://www.warmplace.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1336(thanks for the link Victor!)Still don't know how to make the code open a specific video but think that it is relatively easy to at least learn how to do something simple like that and you would not have to get into learning pure programming. And there is more small programs like this on the Pixilang forum- But also like said would like to open a Subheader and maybe through pushing myself and talking about it endlessly here at Musical Android there will be more people using it or attract programmers to create more awesomeness to share...It is so cool that it works on all major operating systems and some less known ones and on Android devices that is not so strong and it admits for example midi so you can create simple synth and hook up with keyboard. And just with a little bit more effort you can learn to create a Android app and put it up on the Playstore as mentioned before on other posts there already are some nice apps made with Pixilang like Pixitracker, Pixivisor, Pixelwave and Spectrumgen.So to learn there will be tutorials and maybe i half a year or so a compilation into a readable file and to help us we already have Brian Muramatsu on the case and also contacted the man behind the Pixilang created video that got posted yesterday and he said that he will help us too! So slowly but surely we can crack the Pixilang code and Dan Brown can write another crappy book about us!So until next week and unto continuously infinite future Pixilang on Musical Android.

It just keeps growing!So this is what will come in the next upgrade and make G-Stomper even more user friendly/effective.It s funny to think that of the major applications that is represented here at musical Android(with the exception of Reactable) is made with one or two people and what they can accomplish. Then you have a company like Fruity Loops with pretty much thirty times more resources have to take years to develop something that other developers have done already and being more interesting both in content and ideas!

Well I saw it and couldn't help but share... It seems to be one of those apps you play with for a minute before you uninstall it- but this video shows that maybe we don't need things to be too advanced and still do something cool.

It was around 1998, a friend had got a new kind of machine it was small and battery operated with a tiny two octave keyboard built in- Yamaha had made small sequencer/synthesizer units. There was a want in my soul that did'nt want to go away, but the money was non existant and have continued to be so all the way to this day- so when finally there was a opportunity to get a smart phone for free- there also was the portable music studio thats been there waiting out of reach for all those years. Finally! Still have the phone its a HTC wildfire S, but before the operating system got upgraded there was'nt to much that could be done with this phone except one brilliant small application called nano loop- a synthesizer/sampler/sequencer made originally for gameboy. Then android got upgraded and true love hit my phone and me in the form of Sunvox- Deep and incredible- specially working on an intermidiate phone- with a sound quality to boost!Later as a gift there came into my possession a 10 inch tablet with one gb ram / 1000 mhz.It's not the highest specs but it's enough for almost all the different music applications and Sunvox runs like a charm.And the applications that you see in the header/menu will run on those specs-

Something being close to my heart is the ability to do great things with small means, and thats what really attracts me to android- As the phone / tablets can be get for free or not too much money- I've seen 7 inch tablets ( noticed that 7 inch tablets work better for many applications as you can reach everywhere with you thumbs and being easier to hold ) one gb ram 1000 mhz for around 80 euros and that's not bad for hardware combined with studio/synthesizer/sound generator applications that can be had for a couple of euros or in many cases for free- and some of the best synthesizer/sequencer applications are for free,That is more advanced and flexible than the Yamaha I lusted for- That one cost 600 $ /550 €... And with the telephone plus applications I guess I spent around 20 $ / 15 €! Well lets explore the world of android music applications together and lets forget the expensive Daws and hardware and conjure up something together equally great with next to nothing!!!